Part I. Making Wet Felted Playscape and Wet Felted Rocks. January 30, 2013

With great excitement, we gathered again today at our Wednesday Morning Craft group get-together to make a wet-felted playscape blanket to donate to our school for our upcoming Spring Gala Auction event.

Our Morning Together. January 30, 2013

Yet another glorious morning of creating with friends. Thank you Christine for showing us how to wet felt. Thank you Rachel for the refreshments and getting supplies and tools ready. Thank you Julie for donating a whole bunch of beautiful colorful rovings for our crafting this morning!

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absolutely beautiful! how long did you gals rub the bubble wrap for and how long did you roll it for once you saran wrapped it? Next time how may layers of white roving would you use since you got some small holes at the end? thanks for the tutorial!

I think we rubbed the bubble wrap for 20 minutes (I vaguely remember since we are chatting and laughing so much) and rolled it for about the same amount of time.

In your case, you can always tell when to stop rubbing or rolling when you do the “Pinch Test”. you gently pinch and pull up the wool on your playscape. If the fibers lifts out and separate off your playscape, you have to felt your playscape more. If you pinch it and the wool fibers are still stuck to the playscape, then you are done, the fibers are felted together.

Alternately, if you are doing a smaller playscape, you can roll it up carefully with large piece of synthetic fiber e.g. polyester blend or nylon (edges of playscape not touching, or will felt and stuck together) and put that into your washing machine to felt. Here’s a smaller playscape I did this way with my children: http://castleofcostamesa.com/dolls/making-anickas-first-felted-playscape

Re: “Holes in the playscape”
The “holes” I referred to was not actual holes in the mat, but refer to the areas on the colorful playscape where the white batting were showing through. To answer that question, we used enough layers of white batting.

What we should have done is to put 3 or so layers of colorful roving on top of our white batting, so the “grass” shows green and not with white “holes”/patches in it. I realized, if you use batting (such as colorful PeaceFleece.com wool batting), it covers better, if you use wool top (finer, more delicate) it covers less well and leaving white batting below showing, unless you use many layers of your wool top.

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